[incubation] clarification request for when CQs are needed

["Mark Stoodley" <mstoodle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If a project committer makes a significant
(say > 1000 lines of code) contribution and the contribution is "new"
content (by which I mean a completely new file or piece of content; not
modifications to existing content in the project), does that necessarily
count as an "initial contribution" under the IP process?

The specific example we've got is the
contribution of our coding standard, which is more than 1000 lines (yeah,
I know) of markdown.  Up until this point, we did not have a documented
coding standard, so technically it's "new content" but I have
to admit, I felt kind of silly opening a CQ for it (which I did anyway
under the guise of "better safe than sorry" : see https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134if you're really interested).

It was contributed by a project committer
so doesn't directly fall under the "> 1000 lines" rule for
non committers.

Do we need a CQ for such content?

Later on, one of our committers will
be contributing several hundred thousand lines of Just In Time compiler
code. That code, I will obviously treat as "initial contribution",
but looking for some guidance on where the threshold is for this kind of
thing and how pedantic I should be about it.

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